Ajay Bhandari Email & Phone Number

Hyderabad, In

Worldwide, Oo

Leading engineering practice for software platforms & integration services across iPaaS and cloud platforms. Managing partnership & alliances, capability development, go-to market, advise-build-operate solutions with customers, manage people & business.

Dubai, Ae

Founded the early-stage web3 startup to transform ad-infrastructure using web3 and blockchain constructs providing leadership and direction to product and engineering team while focusing on product and tech strategy to meet product-market fit • Partnered with CEO to lead product development and launch of ad manager and decentralized ad-network on Polygon within 6 months of incorporation. • Hired and managed a team of 30 engineers, designers and product managers overseeing all aspects of product development and delivery. Established a culture of performance and accountability by coaching managers and team on industry best practices. • Wrote and published whitepaper on product vision, technical strategy, design, roadmap while working as hands-on blockchain architect to bridge skills gaps during the initial period.• Actively engaged with VCs, angel investors to sell them on the product vision, resulting in pre-seed funding, as well as partnerships with web3 platform players like Polygon, Decentraland and others.

Singapore, Singapore, Sg

Led mobility product transformation to SaaS platform, working with cross-functional leaders to define technical strategy for product value and effectiveness. Built, developed and led a team of 50+ responsible for the full product and technology life cycle from research and innovation through deployment and operation across India, Ukraine and Indonesia with $10M+ revenue. Held direct accountability for the vision strategy and execution of new platform and product development along with forging partnerships with technology and service providers. • Championed development of market making SaaS platform and white-label apps: Redesigned legacy backend infrastructure & mobile/web applications that had 50K active users to separate microservice infrastructure while simultaneously modularizing features to support a flexible subscription model • Directed R&D teams through the ground-up development of new products, including identifying and writing algorithms, machine learning models, backend APIs and guiding product marketing efforts.• Setup engineering culture for agility and ownership using agile development methodologies and practices such as DevOps, ML Ops, feature flags, A/B tests etc. • Infused flexibility, scalability and cost-efficiency by leading fully cloud-native development and deployment strategy.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Lead cloud transformative projects for Reliance, ICICI Group and HDFC using Google Cloud platform while interfacing with Google engineering, partners and customer stakeholders resulting in substantial revenue growth from $2M to $6M+. • Increased new work sold by 40% by leading the design & development of new IP offerings for product recommendations, supply chain & logistics optimization, call center intelligence with local language chatbots built using ML models & big data platform from GCP.• Introduced cloud native and serverless culture at customer organizations to streamline and enhance development processes; transitioned to lean, cost effective cloud development practices, using Anthos, Kubernetes, Firebase, Cloud Build/Run and other GCP services. • Accelerated product and solution development on GCP for customers, from quarters to weeks, by creating a strong engineering base with boutique partner firms and Google engineering teams. • Built technical architecture blueprints and prototypes on hybrid workloads using Kubernetes, Anthos, Apigee, Dataflow, Pubsub, Big query and AI/ML services resulting in various app modernization, data migration and new development projects on GCP. Drove the design and delivery of such projects while managing distributed teams across Google, partner and customer organizations.

Redmond, Washington, Us

In the Chief Architect role, I was responsible for providing technical sponsorship on high impact key strategic engagements throughout the globe across Azure product engineering, delivery & support and at times leading technical aspects of recovery of troubled engagements. I also led the incubation, adoption & inclusion of technical strategy for emerging technologies & trends such as Internet of Things, machine learning, big data etc. working closely with delivery domains & product engineering groups. I helped with specific initiatives focused on capability building, readiness and overall nurturing a culture of learning, technical excellence & reuse within the organization. Speaking at various internal and external events on topics related to cloud computing, IoT, architectural patterns & tradeoff methods etc., was also something that I liked doing as part of this role. • Lead design & development of numerous Connected Vehicles & Mobility ecosystems and platforms for Global Automakers managing product engineering teams from Microsoft & customer. This includes connected vehicle platform for Ford, Renault Nissan and Tata Motors with platform serving 10M+ vehicles across the globe.• Drove product research & capability building in emerging technologies like Internet of Things (IoT) and Advance Analytics. Design & developed IoT and Machine Learning workshops to help train 400+ engineers on IoT Solutions with hands-on exercises, Threat Model for IoT and Makers Lab helping generate multi-million-dollar revenue globally while keeping customer satisfaction levels at an all-time high. • Design specific community activities, Microsoft Academy for College Hires (MACH) and internship programs and community outreach with colleges. • Setup Architecture Review Board and helped defined processes, guidance and technical framework for Technical Quality Assurance assessment and evaluation for cloud-scale and IoT-scale products

Redmond, Washington, Us

Key Profile: Covering all aspects of the solution cycle from opportunity development to development and operations while working with product engineering and delivery teams. Part of the CTO organization driving innovation programs in collaboration with engineering and delivery organizations.Steering key solutions / proposals to ensure competitiveness while de-risking delivery and managing the estimation process, worth approx 100K hours of global delivery business.Involved in client interaction, identifying & mapping business requirements to Azure cloud solutions, delivering customized products and ensuring customer satisfaction.Monitoring project performance reviews to ensure project delivery within time, quality and cost parameters.Involved in coordination with multi-locational teams for negotiating and closing large engagement deals.Responsible for leading several key initiatives like the defining Cloud Computing strategy as applicable to global delivery with emphasis on removing barriers that inhibit customers from moving to cloud (Part of a multi-disciplinary core team (distributed across geographies) comprising of Architects & other Senior Members from CTO & Services organization).Defining changes in sales & delivery strategy for Global Delivery for acquiring emerging markets & growth economies in Latin America, Easter Europe and Asia-Pacific (Part of a core team comprising of Delivery & Sales Directors, Pursuit Managers & CTO).Defining community charter and goals for some strategic communities (Architecture, Cloud Computing, etc.).

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Product manager and technical lead for suite of products and libraries on Microsoft platform with specific focus on far east market

Master Of Computer Applications - Mca, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Sciences, Physics

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